Pain has a way of making us more honest.
I am for you. I've got your back. I am committed to your best. Help me understand things from your perspective. What can we do together to change things?
For Jesus, the question wasn’t, How do I get into heaven? but How do I bring heaven here?
First, I’m a Christian, and so Jesus is how I understand God.
Find your rituals, develop your routines, create those practices that ground and center you. Stick to them, don't apologize for them, treat them, even the small things, like they're big things.
Churches and religious communities and organizations can claim to speak for God while at the same time actually being behind the movement of God that is continuing forward in the culture around them ....
Can you see why Jesus often began his teachings by saying Repent!? You know what repent means? It means to change your thinking, to see things in a new way, to have your mind renewed—all
But it isn’t a choice, because Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, the life. If you come across truth in any form, it isn’t outside your faith as a Christian. Your faith just got bigger. To be a Chri...
Because when you can’t hear the cry, when you stop caring for the widow, the orphan, and the refugee among you, it always leads to the diminishing of your empire.
Be honest about your joy.
When people debate faith vs. science they’ve already missed the point. Faith is about embracing truth wherever it’s found, and that of course includes science.) He’s
Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church...
Which leads to another question: When Matthew tells us that some of Jesus’s followers doubted, does this undermine the story, or is this the exact kind of honesty that reflects how people actually are...
Wherever you find truth, wherever you discover something new, affirm it, embrace it, enjoy it.
Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.
I’m convinced being generous is a better way to live. I’m convinced forgiving people and not carrying around bitterness is a better way to live. I’m convinced having compassion is a better way to live...
It’s in that place that we’re reminded that true life comes when we’re willing to admit that we’ve reached the end of ourselves, we’ve given up, we’ve let go, we’re willing to die to all of our desire...
He talks of the life that will come from his own death, and he promises that life will flow to us in thousands of small ways as we die to our egos, our pride, our need to be right, our self-sufficienc...
Groups have a center of gravity. Families, friends, churches, offices, and schools all have a dominant consciousness, a center of gravity, a party line. It’s the often unspoken agreement that keeps th...
Gospel is the announcement of who God insists you are. You’re a child of God, not because of how great you are but because God has all kinds of kids and you’re one of them.